Word: proof
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Defenders of Houtkin say the burden of proof is on dealers to show that small-order players really are harming the market. After all, these supporters contend, no marketmaker has bailed out of the dealers' association, and many Wall Street firms enjoyed record profits in the first quarter of this year. In response, the association sent the SEC a study last month that purports to show that traders using the system drove down the price of nine stocks, mostly health-care firms, during two weeks in February and March...
...setting is Kindle County, the imaginary Midwestern tract that also provided the Rust Belt backdrop for Turow's first two best-selling novels, Presumed Innocent (1987) and The Burden of Proof (1990). The moral climate remains much the same as in the earlier books: inducements to lie, cheat, steal, even kill, proliferate, while those in the legal profession -- unsworn priests of the social order -- struggle to sift right from wrong and to keep themselves, if possible, uncorrupted...
...proof, ethicists point to the world's euthanasia laboratory, the Netherlands, where for almost 20 years the courts have not convicted doctors who assist in suicides at the explicit request of the patient. Last February, the Dutch parliament moved to give doctors the actual right to do so -- if they follow strict guidelines for second opinions. Yet a 1991 study found that in one year more than 1,000 Dutch patients who were not capable of giving consent died at their doctors' hands...
...implications of So's letter is that the high SAT scores attained by Asian-American students is proof that their culture values education. This is another example of his faulty reasoning. The first and second generation immigrant communities in American represent a small percentage of their respective races. The U.S. visa application process favors highly educated professionals and aggressive working class applicants. These people have a drive to succeed which they likely transmit to their children. There was no such selection process in order to become an American or West Indian slave. Seen in this light, higher academic achievement...
...himself said ((in an interview with the Washington Post last Thursday)) that a stronger U.S. stance 'might' cause the allies to cut their carping and act. The only fair reading of a comment like that is that the President hasn't tried because he doesn't want to." Further proof of this assessment came last week when Bosnian Foreign Minister Haris Silajdzic couldn't even arrange a meeting with senior U.S. officials to discuss the situation Clinton once called "the nation's most urgent foreign policy priority." Explained a top American diplomat: "We can't see him because that would...